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  • location tracking Ignoring warrants, the Secret Service has been buying up location data from phone companies Thom Dunn
  • data dragnet How one guy's exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, thanks to Google's Geofence Warrants Thom Dunn
  • wireless carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon face FCC fines after probe finds they failed to protect user location data Xeni Jardin
  • every move you make New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm Cory Doctorow
  • convenient rationales Apple poses a false dichotomy between "privacy" and "competition" Cory Doctorow
  • reverse search warrants Manhattan DA served Google with a "reverse search warrant" in a bid to prosecute antifa protesters Cory Doctorow
  • daily me considered harmful Vast majority of Americans and Europeans believe ad-targeting and feed customization are immoral Cory Doctorow
  • torpol Toronto cops can frequently get your public transit history without a warrant Cory Doctorow
  • to opt in just shout no no no and run away Data-broker implicated in bounty-hunters' access to mobile location data lobbied FCC to fight consent for sharing location data Cory Doctorow
  • ajit fucking pai Trump's FCC chairman won't do anything about your cellular company selling your location to bountyhunters because shutdown Cory Doctorow
  • google fi Google Fi to carriers: don't sell our customers' location data to third parties Cory Doctorow
  • the un-truthful ceo Why the hell do we continue to believe the carriers' promises to respect our privacy? Cory Doctorow
  • john legere hero of the skip-tracers Bounty hunters track targets by buying realtime location data generated by T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Cory Doctorow
  • i see you Surveillance libraries in common smartphone apps have amassed dossiers on the minute-to-minute movements of 200 million+ Americans Cory Doctorow
  • always-on EBGAP: Error Between Google and Privacy Sean O'Brien
  • alpr China mandates radio-tracking beacons in all cars Cory Doctorow
  • articles of faith The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow
  • ambulance chasers Ad brokers are selling the fact that you visited an emergency room to ambulance-chasing lawyers Cory Doctorow
  • DMV California proposes location-tracking, e-ink license plates that display "STOLEN" if a car is boosted Cory Doctorow
  • extraordinary access The secret, unaccountable location-tracking tool favored by dirty cops has been hacked (and it wasn't hard) Cory Doctorow
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